Your Screenwriting Career: Using stats to improve your sell

You already have the power and the ability to succeed in the film and television industries, though you might be missing some tools. Know that you are your own company, and you are your company’s CEO.   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career, Targeting - Finding more of the right hands

Controlling your career and your success as a screenwriter is reliant on you treating yourself like a business, and marketing your "product" to as many potential buyers as possible. If you've been reading my articles, you   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career: Creating Success by Building Professionalism

If success in the film industry is based on who you know, then who you know depends upon your professionalism: beginning with the first impression, carrying all the way through to   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career: Keeping Execs' Attention - The Follow-Up

Not only is your career completely in your hands, but in this article, I'm going to explain the one thing you can do to increase your chances of success nearly 10 fold. If there is any article of mine that you are going to take to heart, this needs to be the one.   Read More

Get the Most Out of Your Literary Agent

It is natural for you to expect that your agent will aggressively market your screenplays and your writing and rewriting services when introducing your work to potential buyers, but there are a number of things you can do to facilitate your agent's efforts on your behalf.   Read More

A Contest Reader Discloses What She’s Seeking

Anything is possible, anything is believable, anything goes; just keep your readers on the duration of the ride so they, too, can experience your world. Imagination is our mother ship; ride her to the unseen underbellies of the universe! However, how are some ways to keep your reader on for the ride?   Read More

The Most Important Skill You Can Develop

Pitching isn’t just the most important skill a writer can develop; I personally think it’s the most important ability anyone can develop in every area of life.   Read More

5 Types of Loglines That Don't Work

Savvy writers are always tweaking and polishing and editing and rewriting their loglines. Let’s begin by talking about loglines that don’t work, and why. Here are five types of loglines that don’t work.   Read More

InkTip Advice: Beat Sheets

I got a call from a director the other day asking if I'd be willing to put a call out to our writers for scripts meeting some very specific criteria. I said, "Sure, what's the genre?" He replied   Read More

InkTip Advice: Logline Structure

A producer called me recently to rave about a script he'd just optioned. It was a real genre-buster, it had the most unique and amazing   Read More